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Ama Ata Aidoo
Ama Ata Aidoo was a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, politician, and academician. She was the Secretary for Education in Ghana from 1982 to 1983 under Jerry Rawlings's PNDC administration.
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politics · Ghanaian writer and politician (1942–2023) · poet · novelist · playwright · politician · minister · academic · activist · writer · also Ama Ata Aidoo, Christina Ama Aidoo, Ama Christina Ata Aidoo, Ama-Attah Aidoo, Aidoo
Born 23 March 1942 · Died 31 May 2023 · Q298224
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2025· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Emerging perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo edited by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Gay Wilentz
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2023· 9 entries
The Guardian: Ama Ata Aidoo obituary
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The Washington Post: Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghanaian writer who was voice of African women, dies at 81
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Ghanaweb.com: Ama Ata Aidoo’s Book of Condolence opens on June 7, GAW and PAWA to commiserate with family on Friday
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The New York Times: Ama Ata Aidoo, Groundbreaking Ghanaian Writer, Dies at 81
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The Africa Report: We are here: In memory of Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo
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The Guardian: Author Ama Ata Aidoo, ‘an inspiration to feminists everywhere’, dies aged 81
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MyJoyOnline: Accra International Book Festival commiserates with family of Ama Ata Aidoo
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BBC: Ama Ata Aidoo: Ghana's famous author and feminist dies
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Died 2023-05-31.
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2016· 1 entry
Aidoo's plays The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa were included as African Drama selections in the Cambridge International Examinations
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2013· 2 entries
Aidoo was a plenary speaker, alongside Angela Davis and others
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As a platform for African writers of debut novels of fiction
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2012· 2 entries
Aidoo published Diplomatic Pounds & Other Stories, a compilation of short stories
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The volume Essays in honour of Ama Ata Aidoo at 70 was published, edited by Anne V
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2011· 1 entry
The Africa Report: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Ama Ata Aidoo
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2000· 2 entries
Established the Mbaasem Foundation in Accra to promote and support the work of African women writers
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Aidoo founded the Mbaasem Foundation, a non-governmental organization based in Ghana with a mission "to support the development and sustainability of African women writers and their artistic output", which she ran togeth
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1991· 1 entry
And African-American poet Jayne Cortez established and co-chaired the Organization of Women Writers of Africa (OWWA), and board members of OWWA have included J
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1988· 1 entry
Was writer-in-residence at the University of Richmond, Virginia in 1989, and taught various English courses at Hamilton College in Clinton New York in the early mid-1990s
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Nelson Mandela Prize (1987).
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1986· 1 entry
Delivered the Walter Rodney Visions of Africa lecture organized by the support group of Bogle-L'Ouverture publishing house
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1985· 1 entry
Someone Talking to Sometime, and wrote a children's book entitled The Eagle and the Chickens and Other Stories (1986)
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1983· 1 entry
Moved to live in Zimbabwe, where she continued her work in education, including as a curriculum developer for the Zimbabwe Ministry of Education, as well as writing
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1982· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister for Education (1982–1983).
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1977· 1 entry
And remains one of her most popular works
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1970· 1 entry
Studied at Stanford University, Master of Arts (1970).
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1969· 1 entry
To teach English at the University of Ghana
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1965· 1 entry
Making her the first published female African dramatist
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1964· 2 entries
(first published in 1965) and Pittsburgh in 1988, and Anowa, published in 1971 and produced at the Gate Theatre in London in 1991
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Studied at University of Ghana, Bachelor of Arts (1961–1964).
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1962· 1 entry
For her short story "No Sweetness Here", and the 1992 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book (Africa) for her novel Changes
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1961· 2 entries
Studied at Wesley Girls' High School (1961).
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Where she obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English and wrote her first play, The Dilemma of a Ghost, in 1964
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1942· 1 entry
Born 1942-03-23.
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